Salisbury's Scott Robinson Elected Appraisal Institute Vice President

July 29, 2013 08:00 AM

CHICAGO (July 30, 2013) – J. Scott Robinson, MAI, SRA, of Salisbury, N.C., was elected 2014 vice president of the nation’s largest professional association of real estate appraisers July 26 in Indianapolis. Robinson’s one-year term at the Appraisal Institute will begin Jan. 1, followed by one year each as president-elect, president and immediate past president.

“I am humbled and honored by this opportunity, and I promise to give everything I have to this role,” Robinson said. “I’m grateful to everyone who helped me reach this point in my career.”

Robinson has been active in real property appraisal and consulting since 1987, when he joined Robinson Associates, a Salisbury, N.C., firm his father started in the mid 1960s. The firm is a general and residential practice encompassing all types of real property solutions for various client types.

Robinson has been actively involved with the Appraisal Institute since joining as a candidate for SRA in 1987. He has served in all offices for the North Carolina Chapter and has been active at the regional and national levels since 1991. In 2007 he completed a four-year term on the national Board of Directors and was chair of Region V. Robinson has been chair of Residential Experience, chair of Residential Admissions and chair of the Admissions and Designations Qualifications Committee.

He is a senior national screener for residential and general experience domestically and abroad, and has been trained and approved as a facilitator for the Capstone program. He received the AI President’s Award in 2008 and was named an AI Volunteer of Distinction in 2010.

Robinson received a B.A. degree from Wake Forest University in 1981. He received the SRA designation in 1991 and the MAI designation in 1997. He became a licensed real estate broker in North Carolina in 1989 and has been qualified as an expert witness in numerous courts and jurisdictions.

The Appraisal Institute is a global professional association of real estate appraisers, with nearly 23,000 professionals in almost 60 countries throughout the world. Its mission is to advance professionalism and ethics, global standards, methodologies, and practices through the professional development of property economics worldwide. Organized in 1932, the Appraisal Institute advocates equal opportunity and nondiscrimination in the appraisal profession and conducts its activities in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Individuals of the Appraisal Institute benefit from an array of professional education and advocacy programs, and may hold the prestigious MAI, SRPA and SRA designations. Learn more at www.appraisalinstitute.org.